26 July 2018 Thursday

Popcorn with lots of salted butter

Popcorn with lots of salted butter! As nature intended.

Hello computer glasses

Hello computer glasses! Nice to see [through] you again

15 June 2018 Friday

I fell in love with Naruto all over again, and have also found it easy to continue my love affair with Boruto (the name’s not awful once you know they named him for Neji, whose name apparently is “screw”; I don’t have an excuse yet for Salad — nor for Sasuke x Sakura while we’re on that).

showerproof watch

I [finally] have a showerproof watch again and the world is a slightly better place.

27 April 2017 Thursday

Light bulbs

I am a big fan of past-Alicson who squirreled away these different kinds of very bright high quality light bulbs; was concerned for a moment I wouldn’t find a bulb that wasn’t daylight and dimmable (haven’t wanted one for yearsss) yet here it is! ::happy and in good bright lightness::

25 April 2017 Tuesday

Sad Redbox

Problems with Redbox: 30-minute lock-out for password fails (do people really bother to come back in 30 min?) Contact is discouraged outside live call/chat hours; chat doesn’t seem to care about anything.

12 April 2017 Wednesday

email game

I play the email game and my email wins 95% of the time. I don’t think it’s a strategy/tactic/approach thing—I have those— I think it’s a life and heart thing and it’s not in my genes to revolve around email.

I’ll keep playing on occasion and see what life lessons I continue to learn out of the whole experience.

*update four hours later: Ouch. That was a painful blow. Email is winning harder now.

07 April 2017 Friday

It has nothing to do with who I am

Ummm… You didn’t break it, it was only sprained.
Perfect.
What could he have said? She voiced exactly what I’ve wondered too many times.

Reading Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

05 April 2017 Wednesday

iTunes

I’m installing itunes again. Which I swore years ago I would never do again.
Please have mercy on my soul. And on my poor computer who does not deserve this mistreatment.
I just want my files safe.

Apple/iOS has been trying very hard to convince me to dislike and mistrust them, and the team behind the Concepts app have been trying hard, and increasingly succeeding, to convince me I can like and trust them (lost all my files/drawings/notes; still hoping, possible they’re there somewhere just disconnected). Conclusion at this point: I’m not tossing my ipad yet, though my next tablet will likely have to be an Android (with a pen; I love the Apple pencil (I’m still appalled by the limited design thinking though — am really fortunate my ipad case has a magnet I can stick the eraser cap onto while the pencil’s charging)).

With Android, I can set privacy, and set up backups, and access files of individual apps; very basic necessities for a personal/mobile/essential device.

P.S. I tried getting by without using Concepts for a few days, and all the substitute apps just frustrated me. (I use the others at various times, however Concepts is best for me for uniweldly and expansive notes/doodling / thinking-by-pen/through-hand. I’m glad the Concepts team has proven so dedicated and helpful, so I trust them and still hope to retrieve my files, so I can manually back them up (somehow) in the future and carry on using my lovely iPad with frustrating Appleness of it and good Concepts app with pen[cil].